you can't do 50 + 50 = 100
- 1 + -1 = -1
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49 + 49 = 99 this is where the problem arises. Algebra what you do to one side you do to the other. On the left side your really subtracting 2 but on the right you subtracting 1

Hahaha at the wording making posters question themselves. As a few posters noted, the flaw of this question is in the writing. 50 plus 50 is 100, no other way to spin it. 97 subtracted from 100 is three. If you gave each parent a dollar, that leaves you with one. Nuff said. the extra sh*t is for the creator of the problem to laugh at people trying to figure out elementary math

you can't do 50 + 50 = 100 - 1 + -1 = -1
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49 + 49 = 99 this is where the problem arises. Algebra what you do to one side you do to the other. On the left side your really subtracting 2 but on the right you subtracting 1

you can't do 50 + 50 = 100 - 1 + -1 = -1
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49 + 49 = 99 this is where the problem arises. Algebra what you do to one side you do to the other. On the left side your really subtracting 2 but on the right you subtracting 1